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Far-left agitator Nekima Levy Armstrong, who was one of the organisers of the storming of a Minnesota church to protest ICE on Sunday, raked in over $1 million during six years leading a Minneapolis civil rights nonprofit that addresses anti-poverty issues. Armstrong, whose website identifies her as a civil rights lawyer and "scholar-activist," helped organise the storming of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday. In a Facebook post, she claimed that one of the church’s pastors is a leader at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The demonstration is one of many throughout the Twin Cities in protest of...

PALESTINE: Besieged in Bethlehem church say food runs short. By Michael Georgy   16:35 ET Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2002. BETHLEHEM, West Bank, April 20 (Reuters) - Besieged civilians in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity said on Saturday they were almost out of food while the Israeli army was reinforcing positions around the holy site."Tomorrow we will have nothing left to eat. The situation has become very dire and difficult," a Palestinian policeman inside the church said by telephone. The army encircled the church, built where Jesus is thought to have been born, three weeks ago...

Five Palestinians who had been holed up in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem for over two weeks gave themselves Sunday afternoon to Israel Defense Forces troops. Around 5.00 P.M., IDF soldiers spotted a number of young Palestinians waving a white flag close to the church's gates. A special negotiating team was sent in and the five left the church a short time later. The five are not among the wanted Palestinians who have spent almost three weeks barricaded inside the church. At this stage though, it is still unclear whether they are militants or hostages the Palestinian gunmen...

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Hizbollah Offers Israeli Prisoners for Palestinians Last Updated: April 27, 2002 09:14 PM ET BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hizbollah movement offered Sunday to trade Israeli captives in exchange for Palestinian fighters besieged by Israel. Hizbollah's al-Manar television said Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the party's leader, would exchange the prisoners for Palestinian assassins jailed in President Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and other fighters trapped in the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. "Sheikh Nasrallah is willing to accept mediation from any party," al-Manar said. Hizbollah captured three Israeli soldiers in the foothills of the occupied Golan Heights in 2000 and another captive...